BRICK AWARDS 2023: THE WINNERS 43
Brick Awards 2023 Royal Lancaster Hotel, London
The best in brick E
arlier this month the Brick Development Association announced this year’s winners of the 2023 Brick
Awards, in a ceremony in London’s West End hosted by TV architect George Clarke. Attended by a number of architectural practices, the awards celebrate the very best in current design using brick.
Category: Supreme Award, Sustainability & Craftsmanship Project: Shrewsbury Flaxmill Brick Manufacturer: Northcot Brick Architect: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios Putting this 225-year-old Grade 1 listed building ‘back to work’ after 30 years of dereliction required comprehensive repair, retrofi tting and bold insertions to safeguard the next 100 years. The pyramidal Malt Kiln is re-purposed as a dramatic new entrance and vertical circulation providing level access to upper fl oors. The unheated circulation space is emblematic of a project striving towards a circular economy.
Category: Architect’s Choice Project: Yoko Ono Lennon Centre Brick Manufacturer: Forterra Architect: Ellis Williams Architects The Yoko Ono Lennon Centre is a unique teaching and performance building at the University of Liverpool. It has been designed by Liverpool School of Architecture graduates based at UK architecture practice Ellis Williams.
Category: Individual Housing Development Project: Red House Brick Manufacturer: Ibstock Brick Architect: David Kohn Architects The Red House, a contemporary home in rural Dorset designed by David Kohn Architects, was awarded RIBA House of the Year 2022.
ADF NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2023 Shrewsbury Flaxmill
Category: Small Housing Development
Project: Becontree Estate Brick Manufacturer: Michelmersh Brick Holdings Architect: Archio
Archio has completed a new type of villa within the Becontree Estate, as part of a major house-building programme in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. Commissioned by Be First, the design is the product of deep research into the characteristics of the estate, delivering a ‘gentle density’ of 19 residences, and a community space, across two buildings.
Category: Medium Housing Development Project: The Tannery Brick Manufacturer: Forterra Architect: Mitchell Eley Gould Architects Bamford Blend, a red clay brick produced exclusively for Taylor Maxwell by Forterra, was selected as the primary building material for 43 new homes, constructed as part of the redevelopment of the Tannery, a derelict industrial area. The Tannery’s buildings are a patchwork of materials,
Yoko Ono Lennon Centre
including stone, ashlar and rubble as well as red brick and slatted timber.
Category: Large Housing Development
Project: Kindred House Brick Manufacturer: Wienerberger Architect: Pitman Tozer Architects Kindred House Croydon is a 25-storey mixed-use development on the site of a former car park next to a fl yover in central Croydon. The building is clad in more than half a million Zircon bricks, all hand laid from a scaffold. Its massing is a stepped form that helps to break up the mass of the building and create a composition of adjoining slender proportions.
Category: Urban Regeneration Project: Queen’s Quay Brick Manufacturer: Michelmersh Brick Holdings and Ibstock Brick Architect: MAST Architects Queens Quay is the fi rst residential phase of an ambitious programme to revitalise long- standing derelict land in Clydebank. The development’s prominent location and its wider role as a precedent for future phases called for a high quality architectural and
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